| Don't count on ever seeing Trump's 'Garden of American Heroes' Posted: 06 Jul 2020 11:49 AM PDT  Call me cynical, but I have a feeling the National Garden of American Heroes announced by President Trump on Friday will never get off — or into — the ground, even if he doesn't put his son-in-law in charge of it. Establishing an official United States Hall of Fame will secure the reputations of Betsy Ross and Benjamin Franklin from the changing political winds, no less than the one in Cooperstown, N.Y., preserves for the ages the memories of Ted Williams and Roberto Clemente.
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| China detains professor who criticised Xi over coronavirus Posted: 06 Jul 2020 03:45 AM PDT  Chinese authorities on Monday detained a law professor who published essays criticising President Xi Jinping over the coronavirus pandemic and accusing him of ruling "tyrannically", according to friends of the man. Xu Zhangrun, a rare outspoken critic of the government in China's heavily censored academia, was taken from his home in suburban Beijing by more than 20 people, one of his friends said on condition of anonymity. Xu published an essay in February blaming the culture of deception and censorship fostered by Xi for the spread of the coronavirus in China.
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| We Fought a U.S.-China War in the South China Sea. The U.S. Navy Lost. Posted: 06 Jul 2020 01:00 PM PDT  For more than a hundred years, the U.S. Navy has been using naval wargames to test ships, tactics and strategy.
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| Olson Kundig’s Latest Design Embraces Its Hawaiian Habitat Posted: 06 Jul 2020 11:46 AM PDT |
| Trump administration refusing to let Dr Fauci appear on CBS show, host says Posted: 06 Jul 2020 07:02 AM PDT  CBS News host Margaret Brennan has claimed that the Trump administration has prevented Dr Anthony Fauci from appearing on her show for three months.The moderator of CBS' Face the Nation, claimed on the show on Sunday that the administration had not approved an interview with Dr Fauci since 5 April.
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| The WHO changed its coronavirus timeline to say it got its first report about the virus on the internet, not from Chinese authorities Posted: 05 Jul 2020 04:03 AM PDT  The agency says its China office found out about the "viral pneumonia" cases from reading an online press release from the Wuhan health commission.
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| Supreme Court won't throw out ban on robocalls to cellphones Posted: 06 Jul 2020 08:19 AM PDT  A group of fundraisers, political organizations and pollsters filed a lawsuit alleging the prohibition was unconstitutional.
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| 7 men were arrested after police said they taunted a Black family with racial slurs and Nazi salutes at an Oregon beach Posted: 06 Jul 2020 08:28 AM PDT  The incident happened Saturday during a July 4 celebration in Lincoln City, Oregon. Police said the men who were arrested were "highly intoxicated."
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| ‘We Should Listen to the Argument’ for Removing George Washington Statues, Says Senator Duckworth Posted: 06 Jul 2020 06:41 AM PDT  Senator Tammy Duckworth (D., Ill.) said that "we should listen to the argument for removing George Washington statues" in an appearance on CNN's State of the Union Sunday. Statues of slave-owning historical figures such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have become the latest target of the nationwide racial reckoning sparked by the death of George Floyd in police custody this summer.When asked by CNN's Dana Bash if she supported taking down monuments of leaders who were slave owners, as she has expressed support of changing military bases named after Confederate leaders, Duckworth instead initially took aim at President Trump's Mount Rushmore speech on Friday.The senator, who the Washington Post reported Sunday is a serious contender in Joe Biden's search for a running mate in the 2020 presidential election, called Trump's priorities "all wrong.""He should be talking about what we're going to do to overcome this pandemic," she said. "What are we going to do to push Russia back? Instead, he had no time for that. He spent all his time talking about dead traitors."After further pressing by CNN's Bash, Duckworth said she thinks we should have a national dialogue over the historical monuments at some point and "listen to everybody.""I think we should listen to the argument there, but remember that the president at Mount Rushmore was standing on ground that was stolen from Native Americans who had actually been given that land during a treaty," she said.Trump has defended such monuments, and did so again in his speech Friday, saying, "By tearing down Washington and Jefferson, these radicals would tear down the very heritage for which men gave their lives to win the Civil War, they would erase the memory that inspired those soldiers to go to their deaths," he said. "They would tear down the principles that propelled the abolition of slavery and ultimately around the world ending an evil institution that had plagued humanity for thousands and thousands of years."
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| Surge in NYC shootings fuels police reform debate Posted: 06 Jul 2020 05:02 PM PDT  New York reeled from a spate of holiday weekend shootings Monday, with police fueling controversy by partially attributing them to reforms undertaken following the death in custody of George Floyd. The Big Apple was rocked by 45 shootings -- which resulted in 11 deaths -- over the long July 4th weekend, up from just 16 shootings for the same period in 2019. Terence Monahan, the NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed officer, said "tremendous animosity" shown towards officers following the recent Black Lives Matter protests had contributed by lowering police morale.
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| Why the U.S. Navy Sent Two Aircraft Carrier Battle Groups to Drill Near China Posted: 06 Jul 2020 10:43 AM PDT  The exercises coincided with similar drills conducted by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy in the region.
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| Residents of Mexican town block Americans from entering Posted: 05 Jul 2020 04:20 PM PDT  Their informal border wall follows an upswing in Covid-19 cases in Arizona.
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| South Korea rejects US extradition request over child abuse website Posted: 06 Jul 2020 12:14 AM PDT  A Seoul court says the man behind a massive child sexual abuse website could help future investigations.
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| FDA Head Declines to Defend or Deny Trump Claim That 99% of COVID-19 Cases Are 'Totally Harmless' Posted: 05 Jul 2020 10:55 AM PDT  The President's claim contradicts the existing data
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| NASA's powerful Hubble space telescope has beamed back a striking photo of a 'fluffy' galaxy with a ghostly, empty center Posted: 06 Jul 2020 02:33 PM PDT  The photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows how newborn stars have used up all the gas at this galaxy's center.
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| Confederate monuments coming down in Virginia, but 2 prominent Lee statues remain Posted: 06 Jul 2020 04:04 AM PDT  Memorials to Robert E. Lee in Richmond and Charlottesville are stuck in legal battles despite public protests and the governor's pledge.
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| Man 'pulls gun' on Black Lives Matter protester after Trump supporters deface mural Posted: 06 Jul 2020 06:58 AM PDT  A man has been arrested in Martinez, California after reportedly pulling a gun on protesters protecting a Black Lives Matter mural that had previously been vandalised by Trump supporters.Speaking to local media, one protester described how he saw the man drive past the demonstration yelling "all lives matter" and "flipping us off"; he followed the man's car on his skateboard, at which point the man allegedly made a u-turn and and pointed a gun in the protester's face.
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| Discovery of Frederick Douglass letter sheds light on contested Lincoln statue Posted: 05 Jul 2020 10:18 AM PDT  Amid protests, some want removal of Washington statue which shows president standing over a man who has broken his chainsAn argument between history professors over a statue which many protesters say should be removed from Lincoln Park in Washington led to the discovery of a letter in which Frederick Douglass described his feelings about it."The negro here, though rising, is still on his knees and nude," the civil rights campaigner wrote to the National Republican newspaper in 1876, about the statue of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, standing over a man who has broken his chains."What I want to see before I die is a monument representing the negro, not couchant on his knees like a four-footed animal, but erect on his feet like a man."Amid protests over structural racism and police brutality, debate over such statues has surged. Donald Trump has made defending monuments to Confederate leaders and figures with outdated views on race a central part of his campaign for re-election.Until now, accounts of Douglass's views on the Lincoln statue have relied on a description of its unveiling by an attendee but written 40 years later. The exchange which led to the discovery of Douglass's letter was between Jonathan White of Christopher Newport University in Virginia, advocating the statue be preserved, and Scott Sandage of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, saying it should come down.Sandage found the letter through searches on newspapers.com using "couchant", a distinctive adjective of which Douglass was fond. He told the Wall Street Journal that David Blight of Yale, who won a Pulitzer prize for his 2018 biography of Douglass, was "practically giddy" when told of the discovery.Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 but escaped and became a dominant figure in American public life. He died in 1895.The statue in Lincoln Park was largely paid for by African Americans and dedicated 13 years after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and 11 years after Lincoln's assassination and the end of the civil war.This week, Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia's non-voting member of Congress, said: "Although formerly enslaved Americans paid for this statue to be built, the design and sculpting process was done without their input, and it shows. The statue fails to note in any way how enslaved African Americans pushed for their own emancipation."A copy of Thomas Ball's work will be removed from display in Boston but on Sunday the Lincoln biographer Sidney Blumenthal pointed to why the sculptor used the now controversial pose: it was a development of the symbol of the abolitionist movement, adopted by Americans from the British anti-slavery campaigner Josiah Wedgwood.Though Ball did not produce "much of a statue", Blumenthal said, "it's ironic that people have lost the historical memory of abolitionism. The kneeling slave was on the masthead of the Liberator" – William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper – "and was a very widespread image."Blumenthal also noted that contrary to Holmes Norton's claim, Douglass sat on the committee which approved Ball's design.In his newly discovered letter, Douglass writes: "Admirable as is the monument by Mr Ball in Lincoln Park, it does not, as it seems to me, tell the whole truth, and perhaps no one monument could be made to tell the whole truth of any subject which it might be designed to illustrate."He goes on to point to what is now complicated political reality."The mere act of breaking the negro's chains was the act of Abraham Lincoln and is beautifully expressed in this monument. But the act by which the negro was made a citizen of the United States and invested with the elective franchise was pre-eminently the act of President [Ulysses] S Grant and is nowhere seen in the Lincoln monument."Grant commanded the Union armies which defeated the Confederacy in the civil war. As president he oversaw the constitutional amendments which gave African Americans citizenship and African American men the vote, fought the Ku Klux Klan and championed Reconstruction.But Grant also married into a slave-owning family and at one time owned – and freed – an enslaved man. In San Francisco last month, a statue of Grant came down.Blumenthal noted one possible motivation for Douglass's thoughts about Grant. By 1876, Douglass had both painfully split from Garrison and become a "Republican party stalwart or even a party hack" who wanted Grant to win a third term and would later be made minister to Haiti and US Marshal for the District of Columbia.Some historians, Blumenthal among them, advocate adding figures in Lincoln Park, perhaps of Douglass, black Union soldiers or Charlotte Scott, a formerly enslaved woman who drove fundraising for the Lincoln statue. In his letter, Douglass offers such a suggestion."There is room in Lincoln Park for another monument," he writes, "and I throw out this suggestion to the end that it may be taken up and acted upon."In fact there is another statue in Lincoln Park, to the African American educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune.On its website, the US National Parks Service acknowledges that "for many people, including Frederick Douglass, the [Lincoln] monument perpetuated many stereotypes about African Americans' ability and participation in antislavery activity."But it also notes a previous change. The Lincoln statue originally faced west, towards the US Capitol. In 1974 it was rotated east, in order to face Bethune.
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| China's state television channel severely violated British broadcasting rules Posted: 05 Jul 2020 05:53 AM PDT  Britain's television watchdog is expected to announce on Monday that China's state television channel severely violated British broadcasting rules by airing a forced confession of a UK citizen, the Telegraph understands. China's state broadcaster, which airs in English in the UK as CGTN, is likely to face sanctions, decided in a separate process by Ofcom, which could include hefty fines or being stripped of its broadcast license as a result of the investigation launched May 2019. The ruling could escalate diplomatic tensions between the UK and China at a time when MPs have become more vocal in pressing for a re-think of bilateral relations. The original complaint to Ofcom, filed by Briton Peter Humphrey, focused on a confession forced under duress from him by Chinese authorities in 2013. Mr Humphrey told the Telegraph in an interview last year that he was drugged and handcuffed to an iron chair inside a steel cage. Six uniformed police officers sat at a podium while the lead interrogator read questions from a clipboard and instructed Mr Humphrey how to answer, he said. A heavily edited version made to look like a news 'interview' with a bombshell 'confession' was broadcast around the world on CGTN, and other channels under parent Chinese state media organisation, CCTV – including in the UK. "They twisted things," Mr Humphrey previously told the Telegraph. "It was terrifying; all along, I knew I was innocent and that I was being falsely accused. I also knew that I had no way to escape."
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| This Chinese Submarine Could Drop a Nuclear Weapon on America Posted: 05 Jul 2020 06:30 AM PDT  Yet it is still armed with nuclear weapons.
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| Las Vegas' Nobu Hotel at Caesars Palace reopens amid COVID-19 pandemic Posted: 06 Jul 2020 10:24 AM PDT  The Caesars Entertainment property in Las Vegas is the seventh to open since Nevada lifted a COVID-19 shutdown that lasted almost three months.
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| Disappointing photos show how small Mount Rushmore is in real life Posted: 06 Jul 2020 02:58 PM PDT  Mount Rushmore is considered one of the most famous monuments in the US, but the attraction appears disappointingly small in real life.
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| Chicago violence erupts during holiday weekend, at least 67 shot and 13 killed Posted: 05 Jul 2020 10:08 AM PDT  Nine of the victims were minors involved in the Chicago violence, with two fatalities so far; Garrett Tenney reports.
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| I stayed at a Hyatt, IHG, and Marriott during the pandemic to see how hotels are handling new coronavirus protocols — here's how they stacked up against each other Posted: 06 Jul 2020 11:31 AM PDT  Michelle Gross, her husband, and their two dogs drove from New Jersey to North Carolina in mid-June and stayed at three hotels along the way.
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| McConnell opens door to more coronavirus stimulus checks for low-income Americans Posted: 06 Jul 2020 03:00 PM PDT  "I think the country needs one last boost," the Senate majority leader said of another round of direct payments.
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| 15 Air-Purifying Plants to Cleanse Your Space of Chemicals and Toxins Posted: 06 Jul 2020 02:17 PM PDT |
| Black US Army cadets say they were called the N-word and 'shunned' for reporting discrimination at West Point Posted: 06 Jul 2020 04:03 PM PDT  "I was told that I was going to rob someone because I was Black," one West Point cadet wrote. "A student made a noose ... as a joke."
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| Fire! America Loves to Go to War with the M4 Carbine Posted: 06 Jul 2020 12:00 AM PDT  Rugged, simple and accurate, the M4 carbine is the standard infantry weapon of not just the Army but all of America's ground forces.
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| 1 killed, 1 injured after car hits protesters on closed Seattle highway Posted: 05 Jul 2020 06:57 AM PDT  Seattle has been the site of prolonged unrest following the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which sparked nationwide protests
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| Moscow Has a Field Day With Trump’s Fireworks at Mt. Russia-More Posted: 05 Jul 2020 07:50 AM PDT  Kremlin-controlled Russian state media set out to tickle U.S. President Trump's fragile ego amid falling ratings after his blustery appearance at Mount Rushmore on Friday. Mentioning that the American head of state had previously toyed with the idea he might be featured alongside Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Lincoln, Russia's premier state media channel Rossiya-1 aired a graphic of Trump's mug right up there on the mountain beside them. Given the frequent allusions on Russian state media to Trump as Moscow's friend, even Moscow's "agent" in the White House, maybe the Kremlin would like to see the enormous monument renamed Mount Russia-More. But there were signs on Saturday, July 4, that, for now, Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are trying to keep their longstanding bromance in check, at least where the official record is concerned. Putin sent a telegram congratulating U.S. President Donald J. Trump on America's Independence Day. Interesting move. By avoiding a phone call Putin also avoided any direct pressure to address reports about the Kremlin paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers and coalition forces in Afghanistan.Prior to the bounty leaks flooding out of the U.S. intelligence community, the calls between Trump and Putin had become unusually frequent, but those revelations put the brakes on the presidential chatter. Trump Uses Mount Rushmore Event to Sic Supporters on 'Evil' ProtestersTrump—who is at least as reluctant as Putin to discuss the matter—had also avoided calling to congratulate him on Russia's nationwide vote for constitutional amendments that assure Putin the Russian presidency for life.The Kremlin described the vote as a "triumphant referendum" demonstrating nationwide confidence in Putin. But only a handful of foreign leaders called to congratulate him, and as they rang in from the presidents of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and South Ossetia the impression of Putin as pariah for life was only heightened. While Trump was likely given a "Do not congratulate" input from his national security advisors, the old Chekist Putin can most certainly read between the lines. After all, Trump notoriously took Putin's side in Helsinki, denied Russia's proven interference in the U.S. elections, essentially abandoned U.S. bases in Syria for the benefit of the Russians, toyed publicly and divisively with the idea of re-admitting Russia to the G8, and threatened to remove nearly a third of U.S. troops from Germany—a midsummer night's dream for Putin.Trump-centric Fox News and the GOP follow the lead of America's most pro-Russian president, churning out talking points that increasingly benefit the Kremlin. Russian state media have aired so many of Tucker Carlson's comments that the host of Russia's state television program 60 Minutes Evgeny Popov lovingly described Carlson as "practically our co-host." Likewise, instead of concocting its own divisive propaganda, TASS simply quotes Devin Nunes and Mike Pompeo, both of whom sought to find and punish the leakers who exposed the Kremlin's alleged cash for kills program instead punishing Russia for putting a price on the heads of American soldiers.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Former Nazi camp guard, 93, faces German court reckoning Posted: 05 Jul 2020 10:12 PM PDT  The prosecution's closing arguments will be heard on Monday in the trial of a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard for complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 people during World War II. In what could be one of the last such cases of surviving Nazi guards, Bruno Dey stands accused of complicity in the murder of 5,230 people when he worked at the Stutthof camp near what was then Danzig, now Gdansk in Poland. Dey, who has appeared in court in a wheelchair, denies bearing any guilt for what happened at the camp.
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| I'm an autism expert who adopted 2 children with special needs. Myka Stauffer shouldn't have apologized for 'rehoming' her adopted son. Posted: 06 Jul 2020 10:29 AM PDT  Myka Stauffer, a popular influencer, should've apologized for missing a chance to educate her followers about the realities of autism and adoption.
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| Outrage as Mississippi election commissioner complains 'the Blacks' are registering to vote in high numbers Posted: 06 Jul 2020 12:31 PM PDT  A Mississippi elections official became the subject of social media fury over the weekend when she tweeted that she was "concerned" about an increase in black voters."I'm concerned about voter registration in Mississippi," Gail Welch, an elections commissioner in Jones County, Mississippi wrote. "The blacks are having lots [of] events for voter registration. People in Mississippi have to get involved, too."
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| India scientists alarmed over 'unrealistic' Covid vaccine deadline Posted: 06 Jul 2020 12:28 AM PDT  A group of Indian scientists has warned against an "unfeasible" August 15 deadline.
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| The Best Glassware to Upgrade Your Summer Beverages Posted: 06 Jul 2020 02:03 PM PDT |
| Florida and Texas both hit record highs for new coronavirus cases on Saturday as outbreaks keep surging in the South Posted: 05 Jul 2020 09:07 AM PDT  Florida reported 11,458 new COVID-19 cases, and Texas had a record number of 8,258 new cases. Both states now have seen more than 190,000 total cases.
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| Wasserman Schultz pushes to deny money for military bases named after Confederates Posted: 06 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Like many Democrats and some Republicans, Broward Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz wants to rename military bases that currently bear the names of Confederate generals.
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| Aliens Are Out There But Still Pretty Rare, Study Says Posted: 06 Jul 2020 02:02 PM PDT  The search for extraterrestrial intelligent life could offer important insights into how long our own civilization can survive.
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| As divisions threaten America, the pressure to cancel presidents is dangerous Posted: 06 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT  After Woodrow Wilson, who's next? Thomas Jefferson? FDR? JFK? Jimmy Carter? Gerald Ford? We remove tributes to our imperfect presidents at our peril.
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| Franco's heirs clash with Spanish state over summer home Posted: 06 Jul 2020 01:16 PM PDT  The Spanish state on Monday clashed in court with the heirs of Francisco Franco over who should control a mock-castle used by the fascist dictator as a summer home. Officials in the A Coruña areadonated the property as a retreat for Franco in 1938, when he was the leader of the Nationalists in the Civil War. Spain's Left-wing coalition government demanded its return last year, contending that the formal transfer of the site in 1941 was illegitimate. Franco's family still enjoy use of the property On the first day of hearings expected to last for a week, the court in A Coruna province heard how the castle, which was built between 1893 and 1907, was enlarged after taking in local small-holders' land. "My grandmother was kicked out of her home," said 70-year-old Juan Pérez Babío. "She was pressured and had to leave her house, and that marked her for the rest of her life." During his two-year tenure, Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has challenged lingering reverence for Franco, who ruled from 1939 to 1975, most notably by exhuming his body from a mausoleum for fallen war heroes. The Pazo de Meiras has long stoked controversy, with local campaigners arguing that the 16-acre property on the Galician coastline should have reverted to public ownership after Franco's death. According to the Franco regime's official account, the donation of the home was a mark of loyalty by the people of A Coruña to the general, who was born in nearby Ferrol. But historians claim that the leaders of A Coruña's council and business community essentially obliged locals to hand over a portion of their income to purchase the property. "There was nothing voluntary about the donations," said Carlos Babío, co-author of a historical study of the building. "Money was taken from workers' wages, and we are talking about practically the entire population of A Coruña in 1938." Key to the legal case is the question of whether any transfer of ownership actually took place. Spain's heritage council contends that the bill of sale for Franco taking ownership of the property in 1941 was a "fraud". No money changed hands and upkeep was still paid for by the state. In 2018 Franco's heirs tried to sell the property for 8 million euros after local officials placed a protection order on it, deeming the site a place of special cultural interest. The family has also clashed with the state over how to manage public visits, drawing criticism for allowing the Franco Foundation to run tours extolling the virtues of the dictator. An estimated 15,000 people were killed by Franco's regime and some 450,000 forced to flee, historians estimate. Citizens were divided over the government's removal last year of the dictator's body from the Valley of the Fallen, a memorial he constructed to commemorate those who died in the civil war that ushered in his far-right dictatorship. Francisco Franco, the dictator's grandson, argued that the state's attempt to reclaim the Pazo de Meiras was "part of a strategy of retaliation" over objections to exhuming his body from the mausoleum.
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| Russian Village in 'Danger Zone' of Possible Nuclear Missile Test Posted: 06 Jul 2020 02:36 PM PDT  Nenoksa is once again the crosshairs after a radioactive accident last year.
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| Alleged drug plane burns on Mexican highway Posted: 06 Jul 2020 01:01 AM PDT |
| Hong Kong: Chinese ambassador warns UK over 'interference' Posted: 06 Jul 2020 03:52 PM PDT  The warning came just after a pro-democracy campaigner asked for more international support.
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| Atlanta Mayor Orders Protesters to ‘Clear Out’ After 8-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shot Posted: 06 Jul 2020 05:30 AM PDT  The mayor of Atlanta is forcing protesters to "clear out" of the Wendy's where a police officer fatally shot Rayshard Brooks last month after a violent night that included a dozen shootings citywide and the death of an 8-year-old girl, the mayor said Sunday. "You shot and killed a baby," Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said at a news conference. "Enough is enough."Secoriea Turner was shot and killed less than a half mile from the Wendy's, which had become a place of memorial and protest since Brooks's death on June 12. Three suspects have been arrested on suspicion of arson after protesters set the fast-food joint ablaze the day after Brooks's death.Interim police chief Rodney Bryant said the girl was in a car with her mother and an adult friend Saturday night when the driver tried to pull into a liquor store parking lot and was confronted by a group of armed people who had blocked the entrance, NBC News reported. "At some point someone in the group opened fire, striking the car multiple times," he said.Police are investigating the incident. No suspects have been identified.Protesters had put up illegal barriers, at times flanked by armed protesters, to keep police out of the area near Wendy's. The city reportedly had tried to take down the barriers multiple times in recent weeks. Authorities had been notified of the barriers' resurrection less than an hour before the shooting. The Atlanta Police Department told Fox 5 they had planned on checking out the area but were swamped with other 911 calls."We're doing each other more harm than any police officer on this force," said Bottoms, who had allowed protesters to occupy the Wendy's for weeks during open discussions. "We've had over 75 shootings in the city over the past several weeks. You can't blame that on APD."Within hours of the mayor's announcement three more people were shot, one fatally, when two people exchanged gunfire, Fox 5 reported. "They say black lives matter," said the victim's father, Secoriya Williamson. "You killed your own. You killed your own this time just because of a barrier. They killed my baby because she crossed the barrier and made a U-turn."
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| A US senator wants to propose legislation blocking middle seats on planes after he flew on a crowded American Airlines flight Posted: 05 Jul 2020 08:14 AM PDT  Sen. Jeff Merkley blasted American Airlines on Twitter after a crowded flight, asking "how many Americans will die because you fill middle seats."
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